Reconstructed skull of Eunotosaurus africanus, an early reptile from the Permian of southern Africa. 🐢 Long hypothesized to be an ancient ancestor of turtles, recent work led by @semifossorial.bsky.social shows this curious creature is instead a 'turtleized' millerettid. (1/🧵) #FossilFriday
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Cy Marchant
Профиль Vively◇ Paleobiology student ◇ Scientific illustrator ◇ Osteographer ◇ Ancient life reconstructions ◇ PhyloPic contributor ◇ 🦎🦕🦖 ◇ he/him ◇
🎨 "Karoo Life in the late Middle Permian", by Maggie Lambert-Newman 📄 Bordy & Groenewald (2026): "The Karoo Supergroup: Modern insights from the ancient archive of Gondwana" doi.org/10.25131/saj...
"I believe In evolution, except for the whole Triassic period"
Literally Miguel 🇻🇪EVERY CURRENT ART OF THIS ANIMAL IS WRONG!!!!!!! for this to have the normal tail its usually depicted with, it would need a string of like 150 caudal vertebrae, instead of the expected 30-40 it had big manual claws and a big bone support for a MEAN angry brow over the eye
Hooray for clever scientific names inspired by Greek mythology! ✨ Very cool specimen with exciting implications. 🐦
SergioSay👋 to *Gorgonavis alcyone*, the newest enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of Spain✨🐦 We welcome here the 1st adult cranial remains of a bird from the fossil site of Las Hoyas, and the 1st longipterygid out of China... Thread!!🧵👇 Paleart by Roc Olivé